The fortunate escape

by: Dean & Son

Publication date: 1857

Topics: Conversion -- Fiction., Christian life -- Fiction., Chapbooks -- Specimens., Chapbooks -- England -- London -- 19th century, McGill University Library Digitized Title, McGill Library's Chapbook Collection, Conversion, Christian life, Chapbooks

Publisher: London : Dean & Son, 11, Ludgate Hill

Collection: mcgilluniversitychapbook; mcgilluniversity; toronto

Contributor: McGill University Library

Language: English

8 p. : ill. ; 12 x 8 cm.

Undated. Date from publisher's form of name and years of activity at address, cf. P.A.H. Brown. London publishers and printers, p. 55

Cover title and imprint

First sentence: "During the French and Indian war, when the red man, in merciless rage, scalped for bounty--on a lovely summer's evening, when the trees, the golden flowers, and the green waving grass, all seemed to echo back the evening song of the birds in their homeward flight, strange though it may seem that ever care or anxiety should have been banished from the mind at such a fearful time--yet I remember my heart was light."

Includes 4 woodcuts

Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections, Sheila R. Bourke Collection: 1 of 48 books plus 5 duplicates. Black and white cuts used for more than one title. Pictorial buff wrappers. Duplicates from I. Mackenzie - $2.00. each; the remainder from Laurie Hill Ltd. - $10.00 the lot

Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections, Children's Collection: 1 of 48 books in the series. Black & white cuts used for more than one title. Pictorial buff wrappers

Addeddate: 2013-06-27 13:53:14

Callnumber: RBD CHILD PN970 D4 D4 1857 no.24 Rare Books/Special Collections - Children's Collection (McLennan Bldg, 4th floor)

Identifier: McGillLibrary-PN970_D4_D4_1857_no_24-1084

Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t52f9cg8c

Note: Undated. Date from publisher's form of name and years of activity at address, cf. P.A.H. Brown. London publishers and printers, p. 55.
Cover title and imprint.
First sentence: "During the French and Indian war, when the red man, in merciless rage, scalped for bounty--on a lovely summer's evening, when the trees, the golden flowers, and the green waving grass, all seemed to echo back the evening song of the birds in their homeward flight, strange though it may seem that ever care or anxiety should have been banished from the mind at such a fearful time--yet I remember my heart was light."
Includes 4 woodcuts.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections, Sheila R. Bourke Collection: 1 of 48 books plus 5 duplicates. Black and white cuts used for more than one title. Pictorial buff wrappers. Duplicates from I. Mackenzie - $2.00. each; the remainder from Laurie Hill Ltd. - $10.00 the lot.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections, Children's Collection: 1 of 48 books in the series. Black & white cuts used for more than one title. Pictorial buff wrappers.